Best Erika Ruiz Podcasts (2024)

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Dr. Craig Heller: Pioneering Equitable Advancements in Sleep, Temperature Regulation, and Down syndrome Research 20:10

1d ago20:10

20:10

Join host Erika Ruiz for an informative discussion with Dr. Craig Heller on this episode of The Endless Pursuit - Equitable Science and Medicine podcast. Dr. Heller, a distinguished biologist at Stanford University, leads pioneering research in sleep and circadian rhythms, focusing on their impact on learning and memory in Down syndrome. His innova…

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Ground Control: Lunar with Eyal Solomon 27:17

2M ago27:17

27:17

Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643) is the CEO and co-founder of Lunar, an open-source platform which bills itself as the “first reverse API gateway.” Lunar allows engineering teams to monitor, manage, and optimize API consumption. According to Eyal, it’s very easy to integrate with APIs, but difficult to keep them maintained, and there was a clear nee…

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Producing Your Own Talk Show with Ernie Zuniga 39:22

2M ago39:22

39:22

Season finale! Celebrate the end of Season 7 with an insightful discussion between host Melissa Vela-Williamson and Ernie Zuniga the host of "Pickup Lines". Ernie shares about taking the leap from being a TV morning news anchor on traditional media, to developing a self-produced show with a unique format. About Ernie: For almost 18 years, Ernie Zun…

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Dr. Brian Skotko: Advancing Down syndrome Research for Equitable Healthcare Access 11:15

2M ago11:15

11:15

Join host Erika Ruiz for an engaging conversation with Dr. Brian Skotko on this episode of The Endless Pursuit - Equitable Science and Medicine podcast. Dr. Skotko is the Emma Campbell Endowed Chair on Down syndrome and serves as Director of the Down syndrome Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. With a personal connection to Down syndrome thr…

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Creating Content for Niche Audiences with April Monterrosa 27:07

3M ago27:07

27:07

When you see a lack of representation in media, sometimes the best way to address it is to create the type of publication you're craving. In today's episode, Melissa sits down with April Monterrosa, the publisher and editor-in-chief of Live From The Southside Magazine, to talk about creating content for a niche audience and an insider's look into b…

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Metadata Management: DataHub with Shirshanka Das 36:56

3M ago36:56

36:56

Shirshanka Das (@shirshanka) is the CTO of Acryl Data and founder of DataHub, which bills itself as the #1 open-source metadata platform. It enables data discovery, data observability and federated governance to help tame complex data ecosystems. Shirshanka first developed DataHub while at LinkedIn, but has grown it into an independent project with…

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B2B Communications and Events with Erika Bradbury 36:03

3M ago36:03

36:03

You don't have to be a subject matter expert to help create an engaging event for professionals in a certain sector. You just have to be an expert at creating events. In this episode, Melissa talks with Erika Bradbury, an editorial and event content strategist about creating successful events and communications for business-to-business (B2B) audien…

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Trade Journalism with John Elsasser 43:19

3M ago43:19

43:19

No matter what field you're in, there's probably a publication that is created for professionals like you and covers stories that are relevant to your area of work. This is called trade journalism. In today's episode, Melissa is joined by John Elsasser, the editor-in-chief of PRSA's Strategies & Tactics for a discussion about the evolution and impo…

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Take Your Own Advice: vlcn with Matt Wonlaw 31:58

3M ago31:58

31:58

After his first child was born, Matt Wonlaw (@tantaman) imagined giving his son life advice. What kind of life did he want his kid to lead? At the time, he was working for Facebook, and he decided that his own life needed a change in direction. So Matt started vlcn, aka Vulcan Labs, a research company that develops open-source projects like CR-SQLi…

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The Magic of Authorship with Jacqueline Ruiz 38:30

3M ago38:30

38:30

As PR pros, we excel at helping clients tell their stories, but when it comes to telling our own, we sometimes find it difficult to "land that plane". Melissa talks to Jacqueline Ruiz, a social entrepreneur (and a real-life pilot) about how the magic of hybrid publishing can help you tell your story. Thought about becoming an author? Listen in! Abo…

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Opinion Journalism with Ruben Navarrette 46:28

4M ago46:28

46:28

Join us this season as we focus on The Future of Mass Communication! Melissa kicks off this season with nationally syndicated columnist, Ruben Navarrette. Listen as they discuss the importance of thought leadership in comms, the role of opinion editorials (op-eds), and how to navigate controversial issues as communicators. About Ruben: Ruben Navarr…

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Secret Sauce: Amplication with Yuval Hazaz 31:22

4M ago31:22

31:22

Amplication is an open-source development platform for scalable and secure Node.js applications. It allows engineers to skip writing boilerplate code and offers the flexibility to customize and add components. Amplification was created by Yuval Hazaz (@Yuvalhazaz1), a veteran developer who determined that low-code platforms save time but restrict f…

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Dr. Mark Mattson: Intermittent Fasting Could Be the Key to Healthy Aging and Preventative Medicine 12:26

4M ago12:26

12:26

Join host Erika Ruiz in a compelling conversation with Dr. Mark Mattson on this episode of The Endless Pursuit - Equitable Science and Medicine podcast. Dr. Mattson, an esteemed adjunct professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and former NIH lab chief with a PhD in neuroendocrinology, shares insights from his revolut…

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Dr. Dennis Selkoe: Pioneering Neurodegenerative Research & Advancements in Alzheimer's Treatment 15:13

4M ago15:13

15:13

Join host Erika Ruiz in an enlightening discussion with Dr. Dennis Selkoe, a distinguished neurology professor at Harvard Medical School and a leading expert in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Leading a team of 300+ scientists at the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Selkoe's pioneering research ha…

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To the Moon: OpenBB with Didier Lopes 39:41

4M ago39:41

39:41

OpenBB is an open-source investment research platform created by Didier Lopes (@didier_lopes). OpenBB grew out of a project called Gamestonk Terminal that Didier began working on shortly before the Gamestop short squeeze in January 2021. Today, OpenBB has evolved into an infrastructure platform that allows users to build extensions and access finan…

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Robust Observability: OpenTelemetry with Austin Parker 35:01

5M ago35:01

35:01

OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for collecting and managing telemetry data. OpenTelemetry has been more successful than expected, becoming the second fastest growing project in the CNCF. It allows for flexibility and avoids vendor lock-in, making it attractive to startups and large enterprises alike. On today’s show, Eric (@…

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Never Build Permissions Again: OPAL with Or Weis 37:15

5M ago37:15

37:15

OPAL is an open-source administration layer for Policy Engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPAL provides the necessary infrastructure to load policy and data into multiple policy engines, ensuring they have the information they need to make decisions. Today, we’re talking to Or Weis (@OrWeis), co-creator of OPAL and co-founder of Permit, the e…

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Oxygen Deprivation: FerretDB with Peter Farkas 33:55

5M ago33:55

33:55

FerretDB enables users to run MongoDB applications on existing Postgres infrastructure. Peter Farkas (@FarkasP), co-founder and CEO of FerretDB, explains the need for an open source interface for document databases. Peter also discusses the licensing change of MongoDB and the uncertainty it created for users. He emphasizes the importance of open st…

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The Duke of SQLite: Litestream with Ben Johnson 34:14

6M ago34:14

34:14

Ben Johnson (@benbjohnson) is the creator of Litestream and LiteFS, two open-source disaster recovery solution for SQLite. Litestream is designed to provide continuous backups for SQLite databases by streaming incremental changes, allowing for easy data recovery in the event of a server crash. LiteFS, on the other hand, is built on LiteStream but u…

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Rust Never Sleeps: Tonic with Lucio Franco 36:24

6M ago36:24

36:24

Tonic is a native gRPC implementation in Rust that allows users to easily build gRPC servers and clients without extensive async experience. Tonic is part of the Tokio stack, which is a library that provides an asynchronous runtime for Rust and more tools to write async applications. Today, Lucio Franco (@lucio_d_franco) of Turso joins the podcast …

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The Social Miracle: rqlite with Philip O’Toole 43:02

7M ago43:02

43:02

rqlite is a lightweight, distributed relational database built on Raft and SQLite. Founder Philip O’Toole (@general_order24) decided to combine these technologies while working at a startup years ago. The startup no longer exists, but rqlite is going strong. Today, Philip is an engineering manager at Google, while he continues to be the driving for…

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Tickets on Sale Now: Ethics and Copyright Law in an AI-Excited World 4:02

7M ago4:02

4:02

Learn Copyright Law do's and don'ts of AI from public relations author Melissa Vela-Williamson and media law attorney Alicia Calzada on January 18. Tickets are on sale now! Resources mentioned: - Ethics and Copyright Law in an AI-Excited World - Smart Talk: Public Relations Essentials All Pros Should Know - MVW Communications - PR Pro Gear…

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Bonus: Creating a Conscious Public Relations Strategy with Shannon Weinstein & Melissa Vela-Williamson 49:54

9M ago49:54

49:54

Enjoy a bonus conversation between Melissa and Shannon Weinstein on the Keep What You Earn! podcast where they discuss creating a conscious public relations strategy. Thanks to Shannon for having Melissa on her show to talk about PR and money matters. Resources mentioned: - Keep What You Earn! - Smart Talk: Public Relations Essentials All Pros Shou…

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39. Taking Leaps in Your Career with Jennifer R. Hudson, APR 40:38

9M ago40:38

40:38

Making the leap from a steady corporate job to the chaos of owning your own business is not easy. In today's episode, Melissa talks to Jennifer R. Hudson, APR about her path to owning her own firm. About Jennifer: Jennifer is a strategic communications advocate, trainer, mentor, consultant and speaker. Her superpowers are helping PR leaders step bo…

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Community Driven IaC: OpenTofu with Kuba Martin 33:11

9M ago33:11

33:11

Kuba Martin (@cube2222_2) is Software Engineering Team Lead at Spacelift and Interim Tech Lead of OpenTofu, the open-source fork of Terraform. Terraform is a declarative infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool that recently switched to a source-available license. Spacelift and other companies that heavily relied on Terraform came together to fork it into…

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38. Crisis Communications and TikTok Engagement with Molly McPherson 26:52

9M ago26:52

26:52

Social media is a powerful tool every PR professional needs to know how to use. But what happens when that power gets out of your control and creates a crisis? Today, Melissa discusses the importance of understanding crisis communication in every part of your career evolution with crisis comms and TikTok strategist Molly McPherson. About Molly: Pub…

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37. Uplifting Your Community with Bernice Chao 38:11

10M ago38:11

38:11

How do you make a difference when you see a lack of support for your community? In today's episode, Melissa talks to Bernice Chao, an award-winning creative whose career evolution led her to creating Asians in Advertising and writing a book about visibility. About Bernice: Bernice Chao is an award-winning creative who's worked on campaigns for nota…

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36. Coaching and Consulting with Ken Jacobs, PCC, CPC, ELI-MP 43:51

10M ago43:51

43:51

It takes a village to build a career you can be proud of. In this episode, Melissa talks to former PR agency pro turned coach Ken Jacobs about the importance of great coaching and consulting in your career evolution. Big thanks to our sponsor Anais Biera Miracle for supporting this season of the podcast! About Ken: Ken Jacobs is one of the few cert…

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35. The Path to Entrepreneurship with Julie Livingston 42:26

10M ago42:26

42:26

When you start your career, you never know where life will take you. Today's guest, Julie Livingston, embraced the unknown by letting curiosity guide her throughout her career. Listen as she talks with Melissa about her path and how it ultimately led to starting her own firm. Big thanks to our sponsor Anais Biera Miracle for supporting this season …

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Postgres for Everything: Tembo with Ry Walker 32:03

10M ago32:03

32:03

Ry Walker (@rywalker) is the founder and CEO of Tembo, the Postgres developer platform for building any and every data service. To Ry, the full capabilities of Postgres appear underappreciated and underused for most users. Tembo is an attempt to harness the large ecosystem of Postgres extensions, and ultimately collapse the database sprawl of the m…

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34. Evolving Your Career 19:00

10M ago19:00

19:00

Listen as Melissa kicks off Season Six by asking questions to get you thinking about you how to evolve your career. Join us this season as Melissa talks with experts in various disciplines about their career evolution stories. Big thanks to our sponsor Anais Biera Miracle for supporting this season of the podcast! Topics covered: - Career evolution…

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Automation for Technical People: n8n with Jan Oberhauser 40:04

11M ago40:04

40:04

Jan Oberhauser (@JanOberhauser) is the founder and CEO of n8n, the free and source-available workflow automation tool for technical users. n8n's flexible architecture allows users to avoid the limitations of other automation tools, while also opening doors for complex automation scenarios. The project has garnered over 30,000 GitHub stars and a thr…

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The Big Fork: libSQL with Glauber Costa 32:20

12M ago32:20

32:20

Glauber Costa (@glcst) is the founder of Turso and the co-creator of libSQL, an open source, open contribution fork of the database engine library, SQLite. Most people believe that SQLite is open-source software, but it actually exists in the public domain and doesn’t accept external contributions. With their big fork, Glauber and his team have set…

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Rethinking the Workflow Problem: Windmill with Ruben Fiszel 26:49

1y ago26:49

26:49

Ruben Fiszel (@rubenfiszel) is the creator of Windmill, the open-source developer platform that lets users easily turn scripts into workflows and internal apps with auto-generated UIs. Windmill doesn’t force engineers to change their coding style or adopt a convoluted API, and its low-code design makes it accessible to non-technical users. Tune in …

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Vector Search for Humans: Marqo with Jesse Clark 34:17

1y ago34:17

34:17

Jesse Clark (@jn2clark) is a co-founder of Marqo, the end-to-end, multimodal vector search engine. Vector search has exploded along with the rise of generative AI models, so Marqo’s arrival has had excellent timing. The project has quickly grown to almost 3000 GitHub stars, despite being less than a year old. Jesse and his team weren’t exactly expe…

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From Orchestration to Building Applications: Conductor with Jeu George 33:48

1y ago33:48

33:48

Jeu George (@jeugeorge) is the co-creator of Conductor, the open-source application building platform. Conductor began as a workflow orchestrator and was originally developed at Netflix. Jeu also co-founded Orkes, a company which offers a cloud product based on Conductor. Tune in to find out how Conductor has evolved into an open-source, battle-tes…

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Opening Up Authentication: SuperTokens with Advait Ruia 29:35

1y ago29:35

29:35

Advait Ruia (@Advait_Ruia) is the co-founder of SuperTokens, the open-source user authentication and authorization framework. SuperTokens integrates natively into both your front-end client and your backend endpoint. This approach gives developers more control over the user experience and allows for custom workflows. Tune in to find out why SuperTo…

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Bonus: Inclusive Communication Musts with Gini Dietrich & Melissa Vela-Williamson 52:48

1+ y ago52:48

52:48

Enjoy a bonus conversation between Melissa and Gini Dietrich of Spin Sucks about effectively communicating across diverse audiences. Topics covered: - Being conscious of how you communicate - DEI communication musts - Tactics to include in your communications programs - Integrating intersectionality - Habits for more inclusive communication - Q&A A…

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G&K Uncensored Episode 2: Trails, Trials, and Keesley’s Researching Problem? 27:10

1+ y ago27:10

27:10

In this episode Grant and Keesley Talk about the Johnny Depp and Murdaugh trials. They also get into the crazy things Keesley has researched.By Gulf Coast State College Students

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Music To My Ears Episode 2 7:42

1+ y ago7:42

7:42

By Gulf Coast State College Students

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Totally Stoned EP. 2 8:13

1+ y ago8:13

8:13

After humble beginnings into international stardom, The Rolling Stones hope to continue the success they have found and keep it going into the new decade, but, will they soldier on when tragedy strikes the band and its image?By Gulf Coast State College Students

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Anything to Win Episode 2 - Olympic Doping 6:09

1+ y ago6:09

6:09

Episode 2 of Anything to Win tells three brief stories of Olympic doping and where both individuals and countries were implicated in the most notorious doping scandals in the Olympics.By Gulf Coast State College Students

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Open-Source Runtime Security: Falco with Loris Degioanni 33:36

1+ y ago33:36

33:36

Loris Degioanni (@lorisdegio) joins Eric Anderson (@ericmander) to chat about Falco, the open-source runtime security tool for modern cloud infrastructures. Loris is the founder and CTO of Sysdig, and co-creator of Wireshark, the legendary open-source packet analysis tool. Today, Loris talks about all these projects and more - tune in to learn abou…

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Audiobook Now Available! 0:42

1+ y ago0:42

0:42

Smart Talk: Public Relations Essentials All Pros Should Know Audiobook is now available! Actions to take: - Download your copy of the Smart Talk audiobook on Amazon, Audible or wherever you get your audiobooks Resources mentioned: - Smart Talk Audiobook on Amazon - Smart Talk: Public Relations Essentials All Pros Should Know - MVW Communications - …

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Swim 30A Episode 1: Man o' War 1:26

1+ y ago1:26

1:26

By Gulf Coast State College Students

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Anything to Win Episode 1: Rosie Ruiz 5:14

1+ y ago5:14

5:14

A woman running in her second marathon wins the 1980 Boston Marathon – or did she? How did a novice runner win the marathon when no one considered her to be a contender? Rosie Ruiz was the 11th women to cross the finish line in the 1979 New York Marathon and then first woman to cross the finish line in the 1980 Boston Marathon – without running 26 …

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Totally Stoned EP. 1 8:32

1+ y ago8:32

8:32

From quiet beginnings to international stardom, the Stones did it all in their first few years as a band. It did not take long for them to achieve commercial and critical success. From unexpected success and hit international singles, the band exploded in popularity on their way to becoming The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World.…

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G&K Uncensored Episode 1: : The Grant and Keesley Origan Story 17:08

1+ y ago17:08

17:08

Grant and Keesley discuss how they meet and tell some stories of their time together. Then they play a little game called, “Who’s Most Likely To,” and things get interesting!By Gulf Coast State College Students

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IN2DEEP PODCAST Episode 1: Skinwalker Ranch 1:01:24

1+ y ago1:01:24

1:01:24

To kick off this series, we talk about the strange happenings on a secluded ranch in Utah. Aliens, skinwalkers, ghosts? Maybe all of them! Join us as we go in too deep, in Skinwalker RanchBy Gulf Coast State College Students

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Music To My Ears Ep.1 - Making a New Discovery 11:54

1+ y ago11:54

11:54

On this first episode of the Music to My Ears Podcast, host Malachi analyzes the first album recommendation: Discovery by Daft Punk. In this episode, Malachi speaks his mind about what he likes and dislikes about the album. Will he like it? Is it certified music to his ears? Listen to this episode to find out.…

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